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NeoReviews Vol.9 No.1 2008 e3
© 2008 American Academy of Pediatrics
Commentary |
As we begin a new year, it seems appropriate to assess where we stand. Not everyone will remember that NeoReviews.org developed as an offshoot of Pediatrics in Review (PIR). In 1999, our first six issues were published in print in PIR. Since January 2000, we have published online only as NeoReviews.org and gradually expanded the content of each individual issue to where we are today.
Regular readers will know that most issues of NeoReviews.org have a theme, with three or four articles selected to provide concise reviews of disorders likely encountered in the daily clinical practice of neonatology. During the past 4 years, we have selected themes that reflect the major areas that comprise the content specifications for the examination of the American Board of Pediatrics Sub-Board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. In this way, we are able to supplement or expand upon topics covered in the self-assessment section of the journal (NeoReviewsPlus). In addition, we have interspersed some cutting-edge articles on topics that may not be immediately applicable to clinical neonatology but need to be understood by neonatologists to stay abreast of advances in the field and to discuss topics intelligently with pediatric and obstetric colleagues.
From October 2002 until July 2006, we published a series of Historical Perspectives—36 articles subtitled "The Underpinnings of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine." Most were written by one of the original authors of seminal articles in the field. These articles documented the introduction of the most important aspects of care delivered in neonatal intensive care units today. In October 2006, we moved from principles to personalities with a series of Perinatal Profiles, highlighting individuals who contributed in important ways to the development of neonatal-perinatal medicine around the world. We also have published Educational Perspectives (seven since April 2005) and International Perspectives (eight since January 2006). An important addition to the theme and perspective articles is the inclusion of abstracts of each article, which help with referencing as well as highlighting what is in the article.
Other features that have gained a strong foothold and now appear monthly are Index of Suspicion in the Nursery and Visual Diagnosis. Index of Suspicion in the Nursery deals with common disorders, with each case culminating in Lesson(s) for the Clinician. Visual Diagnosis cases, which frequently have unusual presentations or involve rare disorders, rely on images (clinical photographs, radiographs, computed tomography scans, ultrasonographs, magnetic resonance images, or occasionally videos) that challenge readers to make a diagnosis. Another popular feature, Strip of the Month, presents actual fetal heart rate monitor recordings (strips) and asks readers to interpret them sequentially before revealing the outcome.
Over the years, NeoReviews.org has generated a large body of comprehensive reviews that provide most of the core knowledge required to practice neonatology. These reviews are now available, even to new subscribers, in our eArchives. Individual topics and authors can be accessed by using the Search function.
Behind the scenes, we expanded our Editorial Board to 10 neonatologists who continue to recruit articles from the brightest and best in this country:
NeoReviews.org Editorial Board
Victoria Camerini, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Castro, San Antonio, TX
Eric Eichenwald, Houston, TX
Marilyn B. Escobedo, Oklahoma City, OK
Renee Fox, Baltimore, MD
Ivan Frantz, Boston, MA
Josef Neu, Gainesville, FL
Steven Ringer, Boston, MA
Susan Townsend, Colorado Springs, CO
Linda Wallen, Portland, OR
Helping to expand our global reach, our International Advisory Board comprises 20 members, 14 of whom have either written or recruited NeoReviews.org articles:
NeoReviews.org International Advisory Board
Claudine Amiel-Tison, Paris, France
Malcolm Battin, Auckland, New Zealand
Jose Diaz Rossello, Montevideo, Uruguay
Lex Doyle, Melbourne, Australia
Janusz Gadzinowski, Poznan, Poland
Gorm Greisen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kazushige Ikeda, Tokyo, Japan
Hugo Lagercrantz, Stockholm, Sweden
Ian Laing, Edinburgh, Scotland
Otwin Linderkamp, Heidelburg, Germany
Jorge César Martinez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marcello Orzalesi, Rome, Italy
Siddarth Ramji, New Delhi, India
Eric Shinwell, Jerusalem, Israel
Bo Sun, Shanghai, China
Cleide Trindade, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Andrew Wilkinson, Oxford, England
David Woods, Cape Town, South Africa
Khalid Yunis, Beirut, Lebanon
Tsu-Fuy Yeh, Taichung, Taiwan
During the past 2 years, we have had contributions from the following countries:
The major aim of NeoReviews.org is to provide educational materials for our readers. To this end, we encourage direct communication with the editors by e-mail to Bill Hay at bill.hay@uchsc.edu and to myself at neoreviews.agsp@gmail.com.
We also strongly encourage reasoned commentary (supported by references) when people disagree with one of our reviewers. To submit a comment, click the "Submit an E-Letter to this article" link within each article. We then ask the author(s) to respond, and dialogue can be established. Letters selected for publication will appear in 30 days or less. We have some plans for other ways of presenting information, but we are always receptive to new ideas. We look forward to hearing from you!
Editor-in-Chief, NeoReviews.org, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
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